booze n. [BOUSE n.; the orig. spelling is bouse, but it has been superseded by
booze since the late 17C]

1778 M.P. ANDREWS Belphegor (1788) 6: Enter BOOZE, With a Hatchet, a
Wicker Bottle and a Pitcher. [Ibid.] 11: My husband as great and as drunk as
a lord, / Thinkas the pleasure is all for Sir Booze. 1821 EGAN Life in London (1869) 319: Since souls of taste could never
choose / ’Twixt Alexander’s famous booze, / And Cleopatra’s vaunted fun.

booze-fest (n.) [-FEST sfx] (US) a drunken party.

1931 A. HARDIN ‘Volstead English’ in AS VII:2 87: Terms referring to
the state of intoxication: At a booze-fest. 2005 Sun News (Ottawa) [Internet] A retired cop is furious that a
recent convention of young Liberals in Windsor turned into a boorish
boozefest that kept him awake until the